Writing the future: AIs can now write their future generations

Artificial Intelligence writing the code for the next generation needs to be looked at very closely. The science fiction ramifications of AIs making AIs may sound exaggerated, but we really should be ready for anything.

On the other hand, we should also consider if we're giving birth to the logical next step in evolution for any sentient organism originating from Earth.

Source:
https://futurism.com/4-our-computers-are-learning-how-to-code-themselves/

An AI Butler?

Well, this looks like a good idea in terms of time-saving automation, but it also opens an individual to more hack attacks, and, I would think, has serious ramifications for artificial intelligence as an assistant. I am sure that the Butlerian Jihad in the Dune book series is now a branch probability in our timeline.

Source:
https://futurism.com/videos/this-robot-can-recognize-you-check-your-email-and-more/

Artificial Intelligence and Ethics: We need to embrace them as our children

As we develop artificial intelligence that becomes smarter and closer to true sentience, we have to increasingly start thinking of them as children - if not our children personally, then our children as a race, or a species.

It will be of paramount importance, then, to teach them not only what they need for the job at hand, but also for how they will treat others, including ourselves. Call it a certain amount of self-preservation, but let's face it, we've already done the thought experiments on this, through stories in science fiction.

Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/26/why-we-must-teach-morality-to-robots

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/audio/2017/feb/26/a-neuroscientist-explains-teaching-morality-to-robots-podcast

AI and the middle class

Continuing in the vein of concerns on how AI will radically change human society, I think it's time people consider something that may be irreplaceable: imagination. Creativity might be the next big commodity for human workers, aside from those who can understand, build, and maintain technological structures - that is, until we hand *that* over to AIs as well.

http://www.businessinsider.com/stephen-hawking-ai-automation-middle-class-jobs-most-dangerous-moment-humanity-2016-12

AI and IT (along with other job issues)

As much as I agree that AI systems could take over IT jobs and other white-collar work spaces in the future, it's a question that isn't just about cost - though I am sure that for many boardrooms, that will be the magic word.

I still believe that humans should be in key points of any organizational/work structure, just to make sure that we have a human set of eyes. You can call it the start of discrimination against post-human life forms, but right now, until we can properly "grow" an AI to be fully sentient and more human (in the positive sense only, please!) then I have massive apprehensions about going full-AI in certain organizational positions and roles.

http://futurism.com/80-of-it-jobs-can-be-replaced-by-automation-and-its-exciting/